| 16-39 Basic Conditions of Post and Telecommunication Services | ||||||
| Item | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| Business Volume of Post and Telecommunications | 4792.70 | 4556.26 | 5695.80 | 7019.79 | 9712.29 | |
| Service | (100 million yuan) | |||||
| Number of Letters | (100 million pcs) | 77.71 | 86.93 | 106.01 | 103.84 | 82.81 |
| Pieces of Express Mail Services | (10 000 pcs) | 11031.4 | 12652.7 | 14036.2 | 17237.8 | 19771.9 |
| Issue of Newspapers and Magazines | 20089.7 | 21811.1 | 17620.0 | 16594.4 | 14789.3 | |
| (10 000 copies) | ||||||
| Stamps for Collection | (10 000 pcs) | 453500 | 344114 | 244159 | 183421 | 149178 |
| Number of Long-distance Calls | 210.75 | 219.98 | 192.79 | 196.03 | 226.22 | |
| (100 million times) | ||||||
| Number of Subscribers of Wireless Paging Services at | 4884.3 | 3606.4 | 1872.1 | 1057.6 | 395.2 | |
| Year-end | (10 000 subscribers) | |||||
| Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at | 8453.3 | 14522.2 | 20600.5 | 26995.3 | 33482.4 | |
| Year-end | (10 000 subscribers) | |||||
| Local Telephone Subscribers of at Year-end | 14482.9 | 18036.8 | 21422.2 | 26274.7 | 31175.6 | |
| (10 000 subscribers) | ||||||
| Local (Urban) Telephone Subscribers at | 9311.6 | 11193.7 | 13579.1 | 17109.7 | 21025.1 | |
| Year-end | (10 000 subscribers) | |||||
| Household Telephone Subscribers | 7219.4 | 8535.3 | 10196.7 | 12533.9 | 15246.5 | |
| Rural Telephones Subscribers at Year-end | 5171.3 | 6843.1 | 7843.1 | 9165.0 | 10150.5 | |
| (10 000 subscribers) | ||||||
| Household Telephone Subscribers | 4597.8 | 6197.7 | 7183.8 | 8389.7 | 9240.5 | |
| Number of Post & Telecommunications Offices(unit) | 58437 | 57136 | 76358 | 63555 | 66393 | |
| Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery | ||||||
| Routes | (10 000 km) | 643.78 | 659.53 | 659.22 | 680.20 | 686.70 |
| Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines | 28.66 | 39.91 | 48.77 | 59.43 | 69.53 | |
| (10 000 km) | ||||||
| Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges | 563.55 | 703.58 | 773.01 | 869.40 | 1263.00 | |
| (10 000 lines) | ||||||
| Capacity of Office Telephone Exchange(10000 lines) | 17826 | 25566 | 28657 | 35082 | 42347 | |
| Capacity of PBXs | (10000 lines) | 1587.6 | 1514.5 | 1370.5 | 1294.1 | 1420.0 |
| Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges | 13985.6 | 21926.3 | 27400.3 | 33698.4 | 39684.3 | |
| (10 000 subscribers) | ||||||
| a) The business volume of post and telecommunication services before 2000 was calculated at 1990's constant prices and that in 2001 was calculated | ||||||
| at 2000's constant prices. The increase rate at constant price in 2001 was 27.6 %. | ||||||
| b) Number of postal and telecommunications offices refers to number of postal offices before 1998. That refers to the postal marketing station, | ||||||
| including the postal offices and the postal deputy station, since 2002. The same as the following table. | ||||||